An excellent comment by devastatingyet
...on this whole blogworld kerfuffle going on about BDSM lately, and the insistence from some "radical feminists" that M/f is the only dynamic they want to discuss:
I find the whole thing infuriating. Of course, women like me (tops, or switches) don't exist in this discourse at all. We're obviously controlled by men in some different way that should be separately addressed. 'Cause lord knows the man is controlling you whether he's on the top or the bottom.
I said over there, which I feel bears repeating here:
That's their brand of "feminism" in a nutshell:
"See that man over there? You belong, body and soul, to him. You can do nothing about this, but together we CAN dance around bonfires and howl at the unfairness of it all."
I find the whole thing infuriating. Of course, women like me (tops, or switches) don't exist in this discourse at all. We're obviously controlled by men in some different way that should be separately addressed. 'Cause lord knows the man is controlling you whether he's on the top or the bottom.
I said over there, which I feel bears repeating here:
That's their brand of "feminism" in a nutshell:
"See that man over there? You belong, body and soul, to him. You can do nothing about this, but together we CAN dance around bonfires and howl at the unfairness of it all."